Agreed that threatening is legally and morally wrong, however, call for
retraction isn't. I am pretty sure the petition didn't ask for any violent
measures to be taken by the petitioners. That paper, according to Third
World Quarterly, was published as a "Viewpoints" essay. I agree with
Farhana Sultana that the scholarship wasn't worth the rebuttal.
Yes, this can be seen as an attack on freedom of speech, it can be seen as
intolerance towards diverse viewpoint in academe, it can be seen as just
taking lazy peer reviewing to task....but these are tangential issues. The
crux of the whole debate is being insensitive towards those who brutally
suffered under colonialism and how this was carelessly handled/ignored.
How do you think people would react if, dare I say, "Google's Ideological
Echo Chamber" was published as a double-blind peer-reviewed essay by a
publisher like T&F?
Respectfully,
Deepa
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